Friday, September 3, 2010

From the 'Songs That Helped Me Feel Like a Human Being When I Was a Teenager' Files:

6 comments:

  1. A great number Spencer. I remember this song. I'm just reflecting that you would have been a teenager as I was becoming a middle age-r. Actually I hate you Spencer. Keep your daft songs!

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  2. To be exact, I was eleven years old when this song came out. If it makes you feel any better, I didn't realize it existed until I was about sixteen.

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  3. That's just salt in my wounds Spencer.

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  4. I just recently got into BnL. And when this song came out I could have been your grandfather Spencer.

    Basil Marceaux lives!

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  5. They're a good band, Grandpa Willie. Too easily dismissed too, I think. They have a great cover of Bruce Cockburn's 'Lovers In A Dangerous Time'.

    Steppenwolf: Of course we all meet the same end. I know that as I approach my thirties--and my kids get older--time is certainly making me pay my dues, and quick; my hair is going white at the temples, my knee complains offensively when I stand up from a crouching position, and I have to be much more mindful of my diet. It's all worth the trade though, if you ask me. As I get older my mind gets clearer, and I'm finding a calm inside of me that I've never had before. I feel much more useful. I look forward to getting older; I just hope the puppy in me doesn't rage too much or tear up too much furniture on my way from point A to point B.

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  6. Manfred Mann's Earth Band Blinded By the Light.
    "Cause With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older,
    I tripped the merry-go-round"
    But then who didn't

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